The Six Propositions

Question 1

First proposition: Actions aren’t ? good or evil. They always form part of a chain of cause and effect. They’re good or evil depending upon whether they promote the most loving result.

Answer 1

Intrinsically.

Question 2

Love’s the only universal, the only thing to oblige us in ?

Answer 2

Conscience.

Question 3

Second proposition: “The ruling norm of Christian decision is love: nothing else”. Jesus replaced the ? with the principle of love.

Answer 3

Torah.

Question 4

Fletcher argues the Commandments aren’t ? Jesus broke them when love demanded, so love replaces ?

Answer 4

Absolute.

Law.

Question 5

Third proposition: “Justice is love ?”. Love and justice can’t be separated.

Answer 5

Distributed.

Question 6

Justice is love at work in the whole community, for the whole ?

Answer 6

Community.

Question 7

Fourth proposition: “[L]ove wills the neighbour’s good, whether we like him or not”. This is the New Testament ? love, benevolence, goodwill.

Answer 7

Agape.

Question 8

Fifth proposition: “Only the end ? the means, nothing else”. For Fletcher, the end must be the most loving result.

Answer 8

Justifies.

Question 9

When weighing up a situation, one must consider the desired end, the means available, the ? for acting and the foreseeable consequences.

Answer 9

Motive.

Question 10

Sixth proposition: “[L]ove’s decisions are made ?, not prescriptively”. Love decides on each situation as it arises, without a set of laws to guide it.

Answer 10

Situationally.

Question 11

Whether something’s right or wrong depends on the ? A ? based on following set codes will be no help here. In all moral problems, if an action will bring about an end that serves love most, then it’s right.

Answer 11

Situation.

Morality.